Senior Software Developer
Location: GR, I, Athens
Department: Product
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Unspecified
Industry: Internet
Function: Accounting/Auditing

Company profile:
Hi, we are dopios“We are here to make any location accessible and open through the power of its people. We are here to make the world a place you call home. We just started and we would love to have you around. Coming in?”-- WhyThere are numerous companies out there, but you chose us. Let us share our culture.Problem You will come to work everyday because you want to solve with us a tough and challenging problem; how will we make the world more accessible and open through the power of its locals?Things we believe - We are here to make a global company - Great design and product is the sine-qua-non of a great company - People buy what they believe in, not what they need - We love to learn from anywhere and anything - We challenge what is out there. Common logic sustains "common" companies - The world is less optimal than what we think - The users are what we care the most about and they are their core of our existance as a company - Pay it forward and help others before they ask for it - We stay humble and we do not judge - Simplicity is the ultimate sophisticationPeople we pay attention toSeth Godin, Steve Jobs, Dan Gilbert, Dieter Rams, Richard Branson, Charles and Ray Eames, Dan Ariely, Chris Guillebeau, Chris Dixon, Fred Wilson, Mark Suster--Why, youBecause you are a t-shaped person, passionate about challenging the status quo, ambitious to have a global impact, hungry for new learnings and humble at your core.Things we appreciate - Know what "Community Marketplace" means and can talk about its pros and cons - Love to travel and explore unknown locations - Have always been a builder and participated in various projects - Know who are the game-chaning companies on the web today and can explain why - Get excited about TED talks and you can name 3 people who have disrupted their industries

Job description:
About us:At #URL_98b636c960adbebef086a07c092e13b1e36310114bbd8fb6c9a2f0c4cf3a916f# we are rethinking the way we interact with unknown locations and our goal is to make any location accessible and open through its people. dopios is a recently funded startup (TechCrunch article) and one of the up and coming Travel companies. Nothing is more important to us than our culture. We believe that the first people who join a company are the ones who will shape its culture and in general the company’s future. Luckily, you are one of them. Adding to that, you will be an integral part of the company’s product and how it evolves over time, and finally you will have the opportunity to work with great people and grow from the ground up something amazing.Due to the above we do not take this position lightly. You have to be an amazing developer who can produce what teams 10 times our size can do. You need to be a creative problem-solver with the ability to challenge the status-quo and the skills to bring beautiful things to life. You are a team player and you have complimentary skills that can benefit everyone in the team.What You'll Do: Be in charge of our current scalable backend  architecture and extend itDevelop new and improve existing features and services of our product that will bring to life the core concept of #URL_98b636c960adbebef086a07c092e13b1e36310114bbd8fb6c9a2f0c4cf3a916f# (search, social networks facilities and many more)Maintain the full-stack (end-to-end), including but not limited to deployments, monitoring and maintenance of the serviceEnsure expandability of the platform to all devicesCreate the necessary specs for  technical projects that need to be done by others and manage the implementation processEnsure that our product meets web standards and function across all browsers and devices

Requirements:
What We’re Looking For:5-year experience developing in Java (Play framework preferred). Ability to pick up quickly things you do not know currently.Experience in building and scaling distributed, highly available systemsExperience  in message-oriented architecturesAbility to build a Web APIExperience with version controlMySQL database admin and schema designs knowledge absolutely necessaryExperience with web development frameworks such as Play , Django, Rails etc.Familiarity with EC2Knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX/ Twitter Bootstrap is appreciatedA passion for pragmatic code paired with a sense of product designA passion to build something that will change the worldProficiency in English

Benefits:
What We’re Offering: Competitive salary and a great equity packageAn amazing workspace filled with energetic, hardworking peopleAn opportunity to work with exceptional people in their fields and ability to grow into a very important roleA direct link to the Start-up community (in Greece and Silicon Valley) and to the thought leaders of the Travel Space in Greece